“My parents had already decided on my first name, but they couldn’t agree on a middle name.


So my dad asked the students on his bus for suggestions. A little girl suggested ‘Corey,’ and the other children agreed. So did my parents.” — Max Christensen, NASDPTS president-elect


mate to training on the computer.” Christensen had confidence in the older bus drivers and what they could learn. “In the


back of my mind I thought, ‘I’ve got an 85-year-old mother that uses a computer everyday. If she can do this, the bus drivers can, too’.” Five years later the program has been online for a year and is thriving. “It has been a monumental task,” Voy said of Christensen’s effort. “Not just the nuts and bolts of the program but to get the powers that be at the department of educa-


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